:Keiko Awaji

{{short description|Japanese actress (1933–2014)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Keiko Awaji

| image = Awaji Keiko.JPG

| caption = Awaji in 1954

| native_name = 淡路 恵子

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1933|7|17}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|1|11|1933|7|17|df=y}}

| death_place = Tokyo, Japan

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1949–2014

| spouse = {{plainlist|

• Bimbo Danao
• Yorozuya Kinnosuke

}}

| children = Etsuo Shima, Akihiro, Kichinosuke

}}

{{Nihongo|Keiko Awaji|淡路恵子|Awaji Keiko|17 July 1933 – 11 January 2014}} was a Japanese stage and film actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/person.aspx?person_id=94929 |title=淡路恵子 |website=Kinenote |language=ja |access-date=3 August 2023}}

Awaji appeared in films like Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog, Keisuke Kinoshita's A Japanese Tragedy, Mark Robson's The Bridges at Toko-Ri and Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.{{cite web|url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0265320.htm |title=淡路恵子 |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=3 August 2023}}

She died of esophageal cancer in Tokyo on 11 January 2014, aged 80. She was married twice, to Filipino actor Bimbo Danao and to Japanese actor Yorozuya Kinnosuke.